I can buy the type I want online pretty easily, but I don't want to expend the money on the prices that people are asking. Maybe one day I might, but I'm in no rush.
Preferably one with manners. When I showed those cuffs on another website one user was extremely tactless and rude. I stopped listening to him after his second post and got most of my information from another member who was a collector of antique police equipment.
Older links tend to be chain-links, don't they? Not swivel-bar ones. Or they're the two-piece design, which come apart in the middle and snap together.
I have a pair of 9kt gold links I bought at a flea-market. I was told they were Edwardian. I have a few other old links (none of them full...
How's this for a thrift-shop find? Bought today for $25.
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Manufacturer: T(homas) Gaunt. Optician. Melbourne & Sydney.
Thomas Gaunt lived from 1829-1890. His shop ran from about 1856 until 1890. It continued after he died, but I'm not sure when the...
Most sleeve-garters I've seen are black, or silver/steel. If you want yellow-coloured ones, I wonder if it's possible to buy brass ones? Because gold-plated ones would wear off in no-time, and then you'd just be left with steel or brass base-metal, anyway.
Wasn't there a film made in...1927 I think it was...which was basically a tour around all of Berlin?
I think it was mentioned somewhere on this forum about a year ago. But I don't remember the details.
I have a small collection of razors. I typically use a no-name German Solingen razor which I bought at the flea-market for $5. It's an old straight-razor and despite the fact that it cost me almost nothing, it's consistently given me the best shaves I've ever had.
I'm still gettin' to where I'm goin' (not thirty yet). But...
I went to the same school for 13 years and graduated in 2005.
I went to university for something like six or seven years. Graduated in 2010 and 2013. With a Bachelor of Arts., maj. in History, and a Master of Arts in Writing...
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